IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a Clustered Environment

16 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a Clustered Environment

Figure 2-2 shows multiple clients connected to a client machine that contains the

Storage Agent.

Figure 2-2 Multiple clients connecting through a single Storage Agent

2.2 Design to remove single points of failure

When designing our lab environment for this book, we focused on eliminating as

many single points of failure possible, within the cost and physical constraints

which existed.

2.2.1 Storage Area Network considerations

Today, many of the physical device issues — which challenged highly available

configurations in the past — have been removed with the implementation of SAN

devices. Although ...